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Psalms 22:15

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22:15 The roof of my mouth 1  is as dry as a piece of pottery;

my tongue sticks to my gums. 2 

You 3  set me in the dust of death. 4 

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[22:15]  1 tc Heb “my strength” (כֹּחִי, kokhiy), but many prefer to emend the text to חִכִּי (khikiy, “my palate”; cf. NEB, NRSV “my mouth”) assuming that an error of transposition has occurred in the traditional Hebrew text.

[22:15]  2 tn Cf. NEB “my jaw”; NASB, NRSV “my jaws”; NIV “the roof of my mouth.”

[22:15]  3 sn Here the psalmist addresses God and suggests that God is ultimately responsible for what is happening because of his failure to intervene (see vv. 1-2, 11).

[22:15]  4 sn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to the progressive nature of the action. The psalmist is in the process of dying.



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